![]() ![]() ![]() At stake is America’s military superiority and economic prosperity.Įconomic historian Chris Miller explains how the semiconductor came to play a critical role in modern life and how the US became dominant in chip design and manufacturing and applied this technology to military systems. Now, as Chip War reveals, China, which spends more on chips than any other product, is pouring billions into a chip-building initiative to catch up to the US. Until recently, America designed and built the fastest chips and maintained its lead as the #1 superpower, but America’s edge is in danger of slipping, undermined by players in Taiwan, Korea, and Europe taking over manufacturing. Virtually everything-from missiles to microwaves-runs on chips, including cars, smartphones, the stock market, even the electric grid. ![]() Today, military, economic, and geopolitical power are built on a foundation of computer chips. You may be surprised to learn that microchips are the new oil-the scarce resource on which the modern world depends. The Financial Times Business Book of the Year, this epic account of the decades-long battle to control one of the world’s most critical resources-microchip technology-with the United States and China increasingly in fierce competition is “pulse quickening…a nonfiction thriller” ( The New York Times). ![]()
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